SKIPTON MP Julian Smith told a meeting of North Yorkshire Council that none of the county's maintained schools had been identified as having been built with Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC).

In response to a question, he told the meeting that all government departments were reviewing whether their buildings contained the concrete; that he understood the council was carrying out its own investigations of public buildings,  but that so far he was unaware of any issues.

Cllr Richard Foster, chair of the Skipton and Ripon Area Committee, told the meeting in Skipton that he understood that the former offices of Craven District Council in Granville Street, which were built in the late 1960s and were demolished in 2012, had contained the concrete.

"I think our last council offices were full of the stuff; it was a good move to move here, " he told the meeting, which was held in the Belle Vue Square offices of Craven Council, where it moved after Granville Street.

The former Craven District Council moved to its new offices in Belle Vue Square, Broughton Road in 2012. The authority then ceased to exist at the end of March this year when it was replaced with the new unitary, North Yorkshire Council.

A souvenir brochure accompanying the opening of the Granville Street offices described the building as: "Steel-framed with concrete beamed roof and floors'.